Pacific Season formed off the southern Mexican coastline...Tropical
Depression Three-E formed this morning and quickly strengthened to
become Tropical Storm Blas.
TD 3-E became Blas in a matter of 40 minutes...at 8:00am PDT the
system was declared a depression and at 8:40am PDT was upgraded to
storm status due to data received from a ship regarding the system's
wind speeds. Presently, Blas' wind speeds are at 40 mph and it's
movement to the northeast at 2 mph.
As this system was developing, another was fizzling: Tropical
Depression Two-E lost it's center of circulation overnight and
continues to dissipate...all tropical storm watches and warnings in
effect for parts of the Mexican coastline associated with Two-E have
been canceled.
Tropical Storm Blas is also not expected to have a long lifetime as
the National Hurricane Center is predicting that Blas will weaken to a
depression by the weekend as it continues to push out into the
Pacific.
Lauren
